JQuery DatePicker and beforeShowDay

According to jQueryUI’s Datepicker API,

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This explains why

$("#dateRetrait").datepicker({beforeShowDay: function(d) {
        console.log("bsd");
        alert("bsd");
    }});

does not work.

Also I noticed you are calling .datepicker() multiple times and each time you are giving it different parameters.

Instead of:

$("#dateRetrait").datepicker();

$("#dateRetrait").datepicker({beforeShowDay: function(d) {
        console.log("bsd");
        alert("bsd");
    }});

$('#dateRetrait').datepicker('option', 'minDate', new Date());

$("#dateRetrait").datepicker("option","dateFormat", 'dd-mm-yy');

Try doing this:

$("#dateRetrait").datepicker({
    dateFormat: 'dd-mm-yy',
    minDate: new Date(), 
    beforeShowDay: function(d) {
        var dmy = (d.getMonth()+1); 
        if(d.getMonth()<9) 
            dmy="0"+dmy; 
        dmy+= "-"; 

        if(d.getDate()<10) dmy+="0"; 
            dmy+=d.getDate() + "-" + d.getFullYear(); 

        console.log(dmy+' : '+($.inArray(dmy, availableDates)));

        if ($.inArray(dmy, availableDates) != -1) {
            return [true, "","Available"]; 
        } else{
             return [false,"","unAvailable"]; 
        }
    }
    });

I have also provided you with a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/yTMwu/18/ . Hope this helps!

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